American doctors have recorded the sixth case of infection by the coronavirus, has notified the Center for control and prevention of diseases. In the United States for the first time there was a transfer of the virus from person to person: from a resident of Chicago, a virus transmitted to man living with a woman in the same house. at the end of last year Chinese authorities announced the outbreak of pneumonia of unknown causes in Wuhan. The first cases were related to the seafood market. Experts had previously established that the causative agent was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV. according to the final data, the total number of cases of pneumonia of the new type in China has reached more than 7700 people, of which 170 died. outside mainland China, cases of infection were recorded in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, USA, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia, Germany and Finland. Today, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin gave the order to close the Russian border in the far East in the form of measures to prevent the spread of the virus. <span style="color:darkgray